Tambuwal: APC warns FG against compounding illegality by employing dirty tactics to reconvene houseThe All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned the Federal Government to desist from compounding illegality byinducing members of the House of Representativesto sign a paper seeking to reconvene the House ahead of theDec. 3rd adjourned dateWe have heard from the grapevine that the FG is inducing legislators with a view to reconvening the House, but thiswill amount to piling illegality upon illegality since only a resolution by all principal officers of the House can reconvenethe house, the party said in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji LaiMohammed.We cannot put anything beyond a government that will unlawfully withdraw the security details of the countrys numberfour citizen, who has not been removed as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, simply because he decampedfrom the ruling party to the opposition. For as long as he remains Speaker, Rt Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal is entitled to allthe statutory perks of his office, it said.APC accused the Administration of President Goodluck Jonathan of ruling by vindictiveness,rather than in accordancewith the rule of law.The party said despotism, arbitrariness and impunity are the watch words of the Jonathan Administration,hence it hasdesecrated most national institutions, including the judiciary, and has now put the legislature in its cross hair.The legislature is one of the last standing institutions after the onslaught of the ravaging Jonathan Administration,which hasnothing but contempt for the concept of the separation of powers, the rule of law and perceptionof the country by the internationalcommunity.For this government, it is power for the sake of power, not for the achievement of anything ennobling. That is why the policeand SSS details of a man who remains the countrysnumber four can be removed without consideration to what the law says.That is why public funds will be used to induce lawmakers to sign for the reconvening of the House when it is clear that only theprincipal officers, and not even the Speaker alone, can reconvene the House before the adjourned date, it said.APC said it would not be surprised if the lawless, vindictive and predictable Jonathan Administration will even prevent the Speakerfrom accessing his residential quarters, offices and even the planes in the official fleet for carrying out his official assignments.This President has said publicly that he does not give a damn. This Administration has shown clearlythat it does not believe in therule of law. Therefore it does not matter to the President or his Administration what the civilized world thinks of the country, as long ashe can have his way, using all sorts of dirty tactics including unbridled corruption that is the hallmark of the Administration.We are therefore calling on all concerned citizens to condemn what is happening in our country today before one desperate powermonger brings the country crashing down on all of us. This is because even if the Jonathan Administration is voted out of office nextyear, it will take a long time to reverse the harm that is being done to national institutions, which have become punitive tools in thehands of an increasingly despotic leader, the party saidAlhaji Lai MohammedNational Publicity SecretaryAll Progressives Congress (APC)Abuja, Oct. 31st 2014
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 16:51:20 +0000
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